Sentence examples for instead of oppressing from inspiring English sources

"The police need to be more concerned with getting the bad guys, with helping people instead of oppressing them," he said, frustration making him speak faster.

"[The government] is now basically going back to the old days where they ruled by fear … [But] they should remember the message from the July election … and treat the people differently, instead of oppressing [them] and expecting that they are going to take it lying down," said Ou Virak, president at the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights.

I figured that Mr. Doctorow should appreciate my willingness to reap benefits from my own offspring instead of oppressing anonymous youngsters overseas.

As Pomerantsev points out, one key to the success of this new authoritarianism is that "instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with 20th-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting them and rendering them absurd".

"Over and over, I've heard from parents, librarians, teachers, and kids themselves that it would be wonderful to read books about black kids, or Indian kids, or Native American kids who are just being kids instead of being oppressed in some way," Smith explained.

Modern smart devices are being deployed by those with the intention of oppressing those who lack them.

Chinese security forces have been accused of oppressing ethnic Tibetans.

They are mutually dependent ways of oppressing people.

Thus, it appears that employment of mothers through MGNREGA in addition to leading to compromises in infant care and feeding was also a means of oppressing the women.

Discussion of oppressed journalists generally focuses on Russia, China, Turkey, Syria, and Mexico.

Creating something that serves the interests of the private (or oppressed) individual instead of, ultimately, those who wish to impose on him or her should be a major imperative for the next decade of software and platform development.